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Mahyar Shahri presented at Transportation Research Board (TRB)!<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Lab Group and other UGA groups at Transportation Research Board (TRB)!<\/strong>
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\u2013 01\/12\/2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Lab Group at Transportation Research Board (TRB)!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 01\/12\/2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Lab New Year Lunch<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 01\/09\/2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Lab vs. The Skeleton Crew!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to Steve Pahno for receiving the Best Paper Award at the TranSoilCold 2025 Conference! This is a remarkable achievement and well-deserved recognition of his excellent research work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 09\/17\/2025 ~ 09\/20\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Lab Group at Transportation Research Board (TRB)!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 01\/05\/2025 ~ 01\/09\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mahyar Shahri presented at Transportation Research Board (TRB)!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 01\/07\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome Dr. Dong-Kyu Kim to join our research group as visiting scholar!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 Jan. 2025<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome Sangmin Kim to join our research group as MS student!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Welcome Songyi Son to join our research group as Double Dawgs<\/a> MS student! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Welcome Wayne Allick to join our research group as Ph.D students!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 Jan. 2025<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome Alireza Bahrami to join our research group as Ph.D students!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Welcome Damilola Arinola to join our research group as Ph.D students!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 Aug. 2024<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Lab Group Hosted Dr. Dallas N. Little’s UGA Seminar! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 Professor Little is University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor and E.B. Snead endowed chair professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. (02\/23\/2024)<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Kim Lab Group Lunch at Transportation Research Board (TRB)! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Mahyar Shahri presented at Transportation Research Board (TRB)! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Ahmad Abdelmawla<\/strong> presented at Transportation Research Board (TRB)<\/span><\/strong>! \u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Kim Lab Group at Transportation Research Board (TRB)! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 01\/08\/2024 ~ 01\/11\/2024<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ahmad Abdelmawla<\/strong> graduated with Ph.D. Congratulations! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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KIM Lab Team Building Event and End of 2023<\/strong> Celebration!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 KIM Lab members gathered to celebrate the end of 2023! (12\/13\/2023)<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ahmad Abdelmawla completed his PhD defense, successfully! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Ahmad successfully presented our UGA GPR research<\/a> at FWDUG meeting<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 Dr. Kim, Post-Doctoral Dong Hyuk Kim, and graduate student Ahmad Abdelmawla attended FWDUG meeting. (10\/18\/2023)<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome Dong-Hyuk Kim to join our research group as Post-Doctoral Research Associate!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Our group presented at the Georgia Department of Transportation and the Georgia Transportation Institute Annual Research Expo 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 09\/27\/2023<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nina Kline joined our research group as Young Dawgs<\/a> student!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Welcome Donovan Jackson to join our research group as MS student! <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Welcome Zackary Hall to join our research group as Double Dawgs<\/a> MS student!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Welcome Mahyar Shahri to join our research group as Ph.D students!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Our group’s research on salt marsh is on air: Marshes combat climate change by storing carbon. Scientists want to know how much, WABE 90.1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Kim is named 2021 Civil Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Georgia Section.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n

\u2013 https:\/\/www.ascega.org\/ga-asce-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Kim received $1.17M research grant from NSF\/USDA to\u00a0develop a cost-effective, scalable, and robust sensing framework to measure soil organic matter (primarily carbon) in salt marshes using smart field sensing, remote sensing technology, edge and cloud computing, and machine learning algorithms to acquire, store, and analyze data from both near surface and below ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\r\n\r\n\n